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To our participants, speakers, presenters, sponsors, partners, volunteers, reviewers, and planning team, thank you for bringing energy, insight, and collaboration to the 2026 CARISCA Supply Chain Research Summit.
Your contributions helped advance the conversation on AI, supply chains, and Africa's next research frontier. We are grateful for the knowledge shared, relationships built, and momentum created together.
A focused hybrid gathering that brought together scholars, practitioners, students, and decision makers shaping the future of African supply chains.
CARISCA's annual Supply Chain Research Summit is central to our goal of strengthening African supply chain capacity and advancing Africa's supply chain research globally.
Held July 6-8, 2026 in Ghana, the sixth Annual Supply Chain Research Summit created space for timely conversations on how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming supply chains and organizations across the continent.
We are grateful to everyone who joined in person and virtually, contributed research and practice insights, supported the sessions, and helped make the summit a meaningful success.
The summit community now looks ahead to the 2027 gathering at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt. Further details will be communicated later.
Thank you to participants across academia, industry, and policy
Research, practice, and policy insights shared across sessions
Relationships and collaborations strengthened for future work
The 2027 CARISCA Supply Chain Research Summit will be hosted at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt.
University of Ghana Cedi Conference Center
July 6 - 8, 2026
Thank you to in-person and virtual participants
We are grateful to the sponsors, partners, and supporting institutions that helped make the 2026 Summit possible.
Exploring practical, ethical, and scalable AI-enabled approaches for stronger African supply chains.
Logistics management (transportation, warehousing, inventory), procurement, purchasing, and sourcing management...
Health and pharmaceutical supply chains, humanitarian supply chains and disaster management...
Informal supply chains and actors in Africa, African institutions and supply chains...
Governing AI-enabled supply chains in Africa, public policy and emerging challenges...
Hear from leaders advancing supply chain intelligence, logistics learning, and data-driven transformation across global networks.
CARISCA Supply Chain Research Summit
Thank you to everyone who submitted, presented, reviewed, and attended.
The 2026 Summit brought together researchers, experts, practitioners, and policymakers in Africa and beyond to discuss the place of AI in Africa's supply chains.
View 2026 ScheduleOrganizations that supported the CARISCA 2026 Supply Chain Research Summit.
"CARISCA Summits has been an invaluable resource for expanding my knowledge of supply chain and logistics. The insights gained have been both practical and thought-provoking, enhancing my understanding of the field.
"Participating in the CARISCA Summits and being a recipient of the PhD Dissertation Award has opened new doors of opportunity for me. It has provided access to influential platforms and allowed me to connect with industry leaders and experts.
"The feedback I received on my paper at the summit was exceptional. It has significantly shaped my research, guiding me toward making meaningful contributions to the field of healthcare supply chain management.
"This summit was an excellent opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas. It's my first time attending, but I've already decided I will be back for every future event. The experience has been both enriching and inspiring.
The Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain - Africa (CARISCA) is a Centre of Excellence at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology supported by LEARN by Kühne Foundation
CARISCA's key objective is to support higher education institutions in building the capacity necessary to provide best-in-class research, degree programs and training; facilitate research translation and utilization; and engage stakeholders in best practices and policy changes that strengthen supply chains.
